19 and a half weeks old and still no eggs :( egg countdown anyone??

[Tikkajazz94]

Three eggs this morning YAY!!!!!!

 

[B J Hopkins]

I've come to the conclusion I've 2 Silkies laying eggs instead of just Itty Bitty. Bitty is 1 1/2 yr old. She has 2 Black Silky babies that are 6 months old, and 2 White Showgirl babies that are 1 & 2 months old. Anyway, I've been getting a Silky egg every day for the past week. Yesterday I compared size and saw I'm getting 1 larger than the other e/other day - and Bitty doesn't lay every day, just about 3 a week. So one of my 6months old Silky has been laying and I didn't even know it! Or even BOTH of them could be laying. I need to check bones!

 

[Runawaylobster]

Isn't that a relief?!

yes!!! since that day (sunday) she has left me one egg per day in the box!!! I have seen no more of
the little white ones? Nosey seems to have given up alreaday..

 

[AVintageLife]

My babies will be 24 weeks this weekend and still no eggs. They are mutts, a couple of EE's and the rest resemble marans. With the days so much shorter now I think it will be spring before I get any eggs. Sunrise was 6:30 this morning and the sun will set at 4:30, so dark that I have to bring a flashlight to check the nest boxes for eggs. MY DH said he would run an outdoor cord and timer for supplemental lighting but I really don't want to do that, I would rather let them have their natural cycle and so I wait. Do you think they might start laying in December once the days are longer?

 

[scorwin]

My chickens are about 28 weeks old and haven't started laying either. People keep telling me to put a lightbulb in their coop but I decided not to mess with mother nature and just let them lay when they are supposed to. So I'm with you on that "AVintageLife" : ))

 

[Runawaylobster]

My babies will be 24 weeks this weekend and still no eggs. They are mutts, a couple of EE's and the rest resemble marans. With the days so much shorter now I think it will be spring before I get any eggs. Sunrise was 6:30 this morning and the sun will set at 4:30, so dark that I have to bring a flashlight to check the nest boxes for eggs. MY DH said he would run an outdoor cord and timer for supplemental lighting but I really don't want to do that, I would rather let them have their natural cycle and so I wait. Do you think they might start laying in December once the days are longer?

The days will begin to lengthen after Dec 21st which is the winter solstice. only one or two of my fourteen are laying and they were hatched in april.

 

[WillowChick]

I GOT EGGS!!!!!! We only have 1 girl old enough to lay. She's our 21 1/2 week black cochin bantam, Phantom. We had stopped checking all the time and I was just giving them their morning bowl of oatmeal when I glanced in the corner and THERE WERE 3 EGGS!!!!! Tiny and perfect!!!!

Willow

 

[WillowChick]

Congrats

Woo hoo! Congrats!

 

[AVintageLife]

Thanks, I am thinking I will see some eggs in December after the solstice. A clerk at TSC said that I should only feed them layer feed and no treats/human food or they won't lay. Is that an old wives tale or what? I still feed them grower (because they are not laying yet), grit, crushed eggshells once in a while and during the week when they can't free range because I'm at work, they get "breakfast" to keep them busy (some combination of oats, flaxseed, kale/other greens, mealworms, cottage cheese, pumpkin/squash). On the weekends they don't get breakfast, they get to free range.

 

[WillowChick]

Thanks, I am thinking I will see some eggs in December after the solstice. A clerk at TSC said that I should only feed them layer feed and no treats/human food or they won't lay. Is that an old wives tale or what? I still feed them grower (because they are not laying yet), grit, crushed eggshells once in a while and during the week when they can't free range because I'm at work, they get "breakfast" to keep them busy (some combination of oats, flaxseed, kale/other greens, mealworms, cottage cheese, pumpkin/squash). On the weekends they don't get breakfast, they get to free range.

I got my first 3 eggs after feeding them hot oatmeal mixed with yogurt, ground flax and bran for 3 days.... just sayin

You should really be feeding them layer ration at 18-19 weeks tho... before they start laying.

Willow